“People like to say that the First Crusade began at Clermont. Perhaps, for history, that is true. But for me it began several days later, in a quiet chamber of ...

“Memory is remarkably selective. I can no longer remember how many times I sharpened my axe in those years, yet until my dying day I will remember the smell of ...

“People think a knight is made in battle. That is not true. Battle merely reveals what he was taught during the long months when no one was watching.” From ...

“When I was a boy, I thought war was made up of battles. Later I learned that a battle lasts only a few minutes. The rest of the time, a soldier lives, works, ...

“The monastery taught me how to pray. The conroi taught me how to live among men. And, I confess, the latter proved far more difficult than the former.” ...

“Sometimes God reveals a new road to a man in the most ordinary of ways. In my case, it happened because of an empty cup of wine.” From the writings of Ansel ...

Many navies around the world had “Rendel”-class gunboats in their fleets. These were small, unprotected vessels, but each was armed with a single, ...

“As a child, I thought a knight could be known by his sword. Later I learned that it is not his weapon that marks a true warrior. It is the calm and certainty ...

“There are men who believe a monastery to be the quietest place on earth. They have never lived in one.” another parts The procession appeared in the ...

“Human memory is like the flame of an oil lamp. So long as there is oil, it casts its light upon the past. But once the flame dies, even the greatest deeds are ...